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Re: I'm getting a Shopsmith tomorrow
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 2:06 am
by jct
Here are a couple of excerpts from the Magna Shopsmith Brochure/Catalog dated February 1952.
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- SpecialMotor.JPG (14.21 KiB) Viewed 5354 times
And here is the tag on my motor.
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It seems likely to me that Magna sold motors for the Shopsmith that were manufactured for them by A. O. Smith, and that the motor on my 10ER was one of them.
Re: I'm getting a Shopsmith tomorrow
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 6:40 am
by WileyCoyote
I had to replace the motor in my 4 year old hot tub last year. Ironically, it was an A.O. Smith motor. I guess they don't make them like they used to.
Re: I'm getting a Shopsmith tomorrow
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 1:47 pm
by jct
I just saw this A. O. Smith ad from 1949 on shopsmithusergroup.com
I had to crop it to upload it to this forum. Here is a link to the original:
http://shopsmithusergroup.com/wp-conten ... -ER_Ad.jpg
"Typical of the problems A. O. Smith has solved in engineering electric motors to fit product requirements is the special "Shopsmith" design developed for Magna Engineering Corp."
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Re: I'm getting a Shopsmith tomorrow
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 2:47 pm
by JPG
A.O.Smith was a different company back then. The brand has passed into other hands.
"A.O.Smith "no longer makes motors.
Re: I'm getting a Shopsmith tomorrow
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 5:29 pm
by jsburger
jct wrote:I just saw this A. O. Smith ad from 1949 on shopsmithusergroup.com
I had to crop it to upload it to this forum. Here is a link to the original:
http://shopsmithusergroup.com/wp-conten ... -ER_Ad.jpg
"Typical of the problems A. O. Smith has solved in engineering electric motors to fit product requirements is the special "Shopsmith" design developed for Magna Engineering Corp."
Magna_Shopsmith_10-ER_Ad_small.JPG
Again, not to belabor the point, Magna did not sell the 10ER with a motor. If you bought a 10ER you did not get a motor. It was up to you to buy the motor. A.O. Smith built a motor designed for the 10ER probably at Magna's request but Magna did not sell the 10ER with a motor.
As the ad in your previous post says, $189.50 less motor.
Re: I'm getting a Shopsmith tomorrow
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:22 pm
by BuckeyeDennis
jsburger wrote:jct wrote:I just saw this A. O. Smith ad from 1949 on shopsmithusergroup.com
I had to crop it to upload it to this forum. Here is a link to the original:
http://shopsmithusergroup.com/wp-conten ... -ER_Ad.jpg
"Typical of the problems A. O. Smith has solved in engineering electric motors to fit product requirements is the special "Shopsmith" design developed for Magna Engineering Corp."
Magna_Shopsmith_10-ER_Ad_small.JPG
Again, not to belabor the point, Magna did not sell the 10ER with a motor. If you bought a 10ER you did not get a motor. It was up to you to buy the motor. A.O. Smith built a motor designed for the 10ER probably at Magna's request but Magna did not sell the 10ER with a motor.
As the ad in your previous post says, $189.50 less motor.
If you bought it from Montgomery Ward, at least, you could buy a model that included a motor. Check out the ad in the link below.
http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/338/2746.pdf
84 WCP 3470F: No motor, $169.50
84 WCP 3471F: With 1/2 hp motor, $199.50
